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United Activists for Animal Rights

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.5MFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$2kCrime & Legal$1k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Critters without Litters$200,000
Moreno Valley Animal Hospital$125,000
Animal Friends of the SB Valley$125,000
Riverside Animal Shelters$125,000
Kern County Animal Hospital$100,000
Together Spay it for the Future$100,000
Kern County Animal Shelters$100,000
Taking it to the Streets$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
Bear Paw Wildlive Shelter$75,000
City of Bakersfield Animal Shelters$50,000
Turpintine Creek Wildlife Shelter$50,000
Mary Roberts Spay Neuter$50,000
Humane Society of SBV$50,000
Ash Humane Society$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Lockwood Animal: $11k → 10%Project Wildlife: $500 → 11%Hope Wildlive Rescue: $500 → 11%The Cornucopia Institute: $2k → 15%Xerces Society: $25k → 12%Critters without Litters: $200k → 10%American Bird Conservation: $25k → 6%Donkeyland: $20k → 11%Moreno Valley Animal Hospital: $125k → 10%Donkeyland: $20k → 11%Animal Friends of the SB Valley: $125k → 10%Donkeyland: $6k → 11%Together Spay it for the Future: $100k → 10%Riverside Co Deputy Sheriff K9 Fund: $1k → 11%Taking it to the Streets: $100k → 10%Donkeyland: $200 → 11%Bear Paw Wildlive Shelter: $75k → 10%Mary Roberts Spay Neuter: $50k → 10%Turpintine Creek Wildlife Shelter: $50k → 10%Ash Humane Society: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 4 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$115k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
-15%

Still filing today

25%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
AnimalsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • D
    DonkeyLand
    4× · 2018–2023 · $46k · revenue +123%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2025 · $38k
  • ZC
    Zoo Check
    3× · 2017–2019 · $27k

Funded once

  • XS
    XERCES SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +125%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Critters without Litters: $200,000 · OtherCritters without LittersMoreno Valley Animal Hospital: $125,000 · OtherMoreno Valley Animal HospitalAnimal Friends of the SB Valley: $125,000 · OtherAnimal Friends of the SB ValleyRiverside Animal Shelters: $125,000 · OtherRiverside Animal SheltersKern County Animal Hospital: $100,000 · OtherKern County Animal HospitalTogether Spay it for the Future: $100,000 · OtherTogether Spay it for the FutureTaking it to the Streets: $100,000 · OtherTaking it to the StreetsKern County Animal Shelters: $100,000 · OtherKern County Animal SheltersIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBear Paw Wildlive Shelter: $75,000 · OtherTurpintine Creek Wildlife Shelter: $50,000 · OtherMary Roberts Spay Neuter: $50,000 · OtherCity of Bakersfield Animal Shelters: $50,000 · OtherHumane Society of SBV: $50,000 · Other+9 more: $126,600 · Other+9 moreDonkeyLand: $46,200 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,476,600Animals$73,200Food & Nutrition$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDonkeyLand: $46,200 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMALS ARE FIRST FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds DonkeyLand ↗
  • Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMALS ARE FIRST FUND ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Activists for Animal Rights funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Activists for Animal Rights. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to United Activists for Animal Rights through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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